Product Details

• Actors: Veena & Neena Bidasha
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Goldhill Home Media
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2001
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000055ZGN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,342 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Graceful and professional, April 12, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sensual Art of Bellydance: Mystic Dance [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Veena and Neena show you how to do a gracefully slower-paced bellydance with a veil. However, you can do this tape without any veil. In the choreography section, one sister shows the steps to the dance with the veil, and the other shows you without the veil. The music is perfect and I liked the background. They don't reteach you anything here that they already taught on another video in this Sensual Art of Bellydance series. If a previously taught move is needed for the dance routine, they show it to you very briefly and that's it. This is ethical. They know that nobody wants to pay for 3 different videos that repeat themselves. The performance taught here tones the whole body, especially the arms. This video isn't supposed to be an exercise video--just Egyptian bellydance--but isn't it nice to know that you can get in shape at the same time? One of the moves here is very challegning: the travelling camel undulation. They show exactly how to do it, but I still haven't managed to master it. This isn't a bad thing. It's good because it means that I can use this video for a long time without getting bored. I highly recommend all of the Sensual Art of Bellydance tapes. Veena and Neena are professional and expert and great instructors.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful dancing and instruction, March 4, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Sensual Art of Bellydance: Mystic Dance [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Mystic Dance, has the best music of the three Sensual art of Belly Dance videos. This video is a combination of the two previous videos, but is more complex in symbolism and movement. I throughly recommend Veena and Neena Bidasha as instructors for their easy going style and clear instruction. Together, these twin sisters also have another series, BellyDance: Fitness for Beginners, that series is also very good.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I loved it!, February 22, 2003

By 

Jennifer M. Morse (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: The Sensual Art of Bellydance: Mystic Dance [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Two previous reviewers said some negative things about this video. One said the dancing was "all veilwork". There was a great deal of veil work within it, but, Neena and Veena make a point of saying that the dance works just as well without a veil (the veil work simply becomes hand movements in that case).

Another said the moves were displayed too quickly. There's an introductary warmup and teaching section where each move is taught, one at a time. I didn't find any later movements in the video that weren't shown at a slower pace before going through them at "normal" speed.

That said, I really enjoyed this tape. I also own the first dance tape, and all their exercise routines (on DVD). I guess that pretty much proves I'm a Neena and Veena fangirl, but, I enjoyed going through this dance much more than the first tape. It was slower paced and therefore easier for me to follow and keep up with. I don't move/dance "quickly", and so fast-paced routines are a big challenge for me. This one was nice and slow, which given the "mystical" title, made sense to me.

I bought this tape in a gift set with a veil and zills (finger cymbals). I was a little disappointed that there was no zill instruction, but, other than that, I thought it was well worth the price.